Photographic Encounters: The Edges and Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions

by Donald Lawrence, W.F. Garrett-Petts, William F. Garrett-Petts, et al.

Literacy is broadly understood to refer to the ability to read and write. But the term is heavily value-laden and is often used to elevate print at the expense of other forms of communication. In PhotoGraphic Encounters, the authors challenge this reductive notion of literacy and propose instead an integrated span of literacies: reaching across disciplinary boundaries to discover a text that draws upon both the visual and the verbal. PhotoGraphic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888643624
• ISBN13: 9780888643629
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 342 Pages